eau claire county, the main part of the 'metro' area up there and second-largest in wi-3, is significantly larger (105k vs 66k) and hasn't gone republican for president in forty years.
wi-3's largest county, la crosse, matches that 10 straight elections going democrat.
Sure, leopards eating faces and all that, only these people lack that kind of self awareness. As the leopard is eating their face, they're sitting there telling themselves that this is simply an honest mistake by an administration that's trying to do the right thing and would never hurt them on purpose.
Oh I'm quite confident that they and their monied backers are very interested in the plight of the farmers. When those farmers get knocked out of the market, the big agri corps can buy farms for pennies on the dollar.